Mobil

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At the old Mobil station on Route 66, a regular customer noticed something strange one morning. As he filled up his car, he asked the attendant, ‘Do you ever see those ghostly figures standing around your pumps?’ The attendant shrugged and said, ‘Only when I run out of gas!’ The regular laughed so hard that he spilled some gasoline on himself, prompting a delivery driver to yell, ‘Hey, pal, maybe next time you should look before you laugh!’

2. At the old Mobil station in a small town, every morning a little dog would appear from nowhere and sit by the cash register. No one knew where he came from or why, but everyone grew used to his presence until one day, when the cashier tried to pet him—only to discover that the dog had never been there before. Finally, after weeks of speculation, an elderly neighbor confessed: ‘I bring him every morning on my way to coffee!’ Turns out, it was just an adorable prank by an affectionate pensioner.

3. At the old Mobil station near the park, someone always left behind an unusual item: tiny plastic dinosaurs. Each day, a different color appeared—first green, then blue, red, and yellow. No one knew who was doing it or why. One morning, a delivery driver found not just a new dinosaur but an entire toy dinosaur herd—all lined up neatly on the counter. He joked that maybe they were waiting for their friend, the green dinosaur, who never showed up again after his shift ended. Since then, locals started calling the Mobil station 'Dino Gas,' and everyone laughed when filling up.

4. At the old Mobil station by the river, every night around closing time, a soft humming started up. It was faint but persistent, like someone tuning a radio just right. The gas attendants shrugged it off as nothing, until one day a delivery driver claimed he saw a shadowy figure adjusting the pump handles. Soon enough, everyone in town heard about the ghostly hand adjusting pumps. One evening, an old neighbor stopped by and joked, ‘Maybe it’s just a rat playing with those handles!’ To prove him wrong, they set up a camera. Next morning, the tape showed only a blurry mouse scurrying away—leaving the pumps untouched. Since then, locals joke that the spirit of a former employee who loved tinkering is still helping out after hours.